Thinking About Losing Weight?
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Can you really lose weight just by thinking about it?
Scientists now seem to think you can. Researchers at Harvard have come to startling conclusions about the body-mind connection.
Just Think About It.
How many times has someone said that to you? More than once, I'll bet. But now it seems it's even better advice than ever. It seems an amazing discovery has been made by researchers at Harvard University. Psychologists studied 84 hotel cleaners, whose job involved physical activity. It seems that half the group lost an average of two pounds and lowered their blood pressure somewhere in the region of 10 percent, while the other half had no noticeable changes.
If the successful half had been put on a new diet, the world right now would have bought millions of copies of it and every talk show would be discussing how good it is. If you're wondering what caused half of the hotel cleaners to lose weight, you may be in for a bit of shock. The only difference between the two groups was that the successful group had been coached to believe that the jobs they were doing burned calories, made them healthier and helped them lose weight.
In other words the weight loss group were taught to believe what they were already doing anyway was going to have health benefits and the health benefits appeared, without any extra effort on their part. The chief researcher, Ellen Langer, claimed 'The changes were a function of the change in mindset alone'.
She goes on to say 'If you can put the mind in a healthy place, you can have dramatic physiological consequences'. In other words you can lose weight, or improve your general health just by thinking about it the right way. That's an amazing statement and has implications for everyone who would like to enjoy vibrant good health.
If you imagine yourself losing weight and burning up calories during normal daily activity, you will lose weight and bodyfat. That simple. No dieting, no extra exercising, no pills, no shakes, no meal replacements. It almost sounds too good to be true, but the researchers at Harvard have now proven that it's not.
So next time you see a slim friend who eats what they want and never puts weight on, you'll know their secret!
So why don't you think about it?
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